Method of assembling handbag frames



1936 w. c. HIERING METHOD OF ASSEMBLING HANDBAG FRAMES Filed Dec. 7,l934 INVENTOZR? I I ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 10, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE FRAME William C. Hiering, Newark, N. J., assignor to J. E.Mergott Company, Newark, N. J., a corporation of Delaware ApplicationDecember 7, 1934, Serial No. 756,429

1 Claim.

This invention relates to hand bags, and more particularly toimprovements in frames used in such bags.

Many hand bags for ladies are provided with a frame to which is attachedthe outer covering for the bag; and also attached to said frame is asmaller frame to which is attached a covering for a small pocketbookcontained within the main bag.

The general structure above describedis wellknown and common in handbags.

Heretofore it has been customary when bag frames of the type abovereferred to were sent to the bag manufacturers, the inner smallpocketbook frame was permanently secured to the outer bag frame members,and it was compulsory for the bag manufacturer to cover the two frameswith bag covering material in the assembled condition, and it was whilesecuring the bag covering material to the small frame for thepocketbook, that the large frames became marred or damaged.

It is an object of this invention to provide a method of assembling andmaintaining alined the hinge members of a hand bag frame and the hingemembers of a pocketbook frame on pivot pins without distorting the framemembers.

These and other advantageous objects, which will later appear, areaccomplished by the simple and practical construction and arrangement ofparts hereinafter described and exhibited in the accompanying drawing,forming part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a hand bag frame having attachedthereto a pocketbook frame by means of my invention,

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of an improved type of pin employed by mein securing a pocketbook frame to a main bag frame, and

Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing details of the structure for securinga pocketbook frame to a main hand bag frame, the dotted lines indicatingparts of a tool used in the securing operation.

Referring to the drawing, in Fig. 1 there is shown a main bag frame 4and a small pocketbook frame 5, both of said frames being substantiallyU-shaped and having their hinged members 6 and 1 respectively secured bymeans of a pivot pin 8. The pivot pin 8, see Fig. 2, has projecting fromeach end thereof reduced portions 9 and H] which respectively pivotallysupport the hinge members 6 and I. The ends of the portions 9 and in areprovided with cavities H.

In assembling a pocketbook frame and a main bag frame, the portion 9 ofthe hinge pin is inserted through the hinge members 6 after which thehinge members 1 of the pocketbook frame 5 are mounted on the portion Inof the pin 8. The pocketbook frame 5 and the main bag frame 4 are firstcovered with bag covering material before the frames are attached toeach other.

After the pin 8 has been inserted in the hinge members 6 and 1 as abovedescribed, a tool l2 indicated by dotted lines in the drawing, isinserted into the cavities II in the ends of portions 9 and ID of thepivot pin 8, and upsets the metal of the pin surrounding said cavity toprovide flanges l3 which prevent the pin from being withdrawn from thehinge members 6 and I, as shown in Fig. 3.

It will be seen that when the bag frame members are first covered withbag covering material and are then secured together by means of myimproved pin, as above described, the possibility of marring or damagingthe frame members is entirely obviated, and at the same time, myexpedient provides an effective and simple means for permanentlysecuring a pocketbook frame to a main hand bag frame.

The foregoing-disclosure is to be regarded as descriptive andillustrative only, and not as restrictive or limitative of theinvention, of which many embodiments may be constructed including manymodifications, without departing from the general scope herein indicatedand denoted in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patcut, is:

The method of assembling and maintaining aligned the hinge members of amain hand bag frame to the hinge members of a pocketbook frame on pivotpins without distorting the frame member, comprising forming pivot pinswith reduced portions at each end thereof adapted to pass through hingemembers, forming conical cavities in the free ends of said pins,assembling hinge members on said pivot pins, and simultaneouslyupsetting the metal surrounding the cavities in the ends of the pivotpins to provide flanges to prevent the withdrawal of the pivot pins fromthe hinge members.

WILLIAM C. HIERING.

